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12/15/09 Journal Entry: Accepted in the Beloved
Following is what emerged from my morning devotional time through journaling. Usually when I journal, I hear the nagging voice that says, "You made that up" I didn't make this up; but at this time, I don't have spiritual advisors in place so, I post the journal here. Please excuse the length of the writing. I get pretty detailed with my entries!
The Setting: The Throne Room of God (many of my visions occur in the Throne Room!). The entire multitude of redeemed souls, saints and angels is amassed in a huge group that is separated by a wide aisle (as in a giant theater). I hear my name called and I am to approach the Throne. I am 8 years old (thanks for the tip Mark). At first, I feel a littl nervous as I look at all the faces of all the souls and angels there. There's so much love and warmth in all the faces that the nervousnes goes away. I feel as though I am with close family. Two huge angels approach to escort me down the aidle and extend their hands to me. I take each hand in mine and we begin to slowly walk down the aisle toward Jesus. All the angels and saints are standing; so, being 8 years old, the view of Jesus is blocked at this point. With each step, I feel more confident and more at ease. So confident, in fact, that before I am halfway down the aisle, I am swinging back and forth between the angels and I'm having a ball.
Then, as if someone called my name to snap me out of my reverie, I look up and catch my first glimpse of Jesus seated on the throne. He has a TREMENDOUS smile on His face. Such love is emanating from Him. At that point, I let the angels hands go and begin to jog toward the Throne. I run faster and faster. The angels are all praising Jesus! Jesus stands and extends His arms out to me! I am running as fast as my little legs can carry me! Then, I hear "ACCEPTED!"
I jump into Jesus' arms! He holds me at arms length above His head and slowly spins around as a father would his beloved son. I look down and we gaze into each other's eyes. Such warmth and love in His gaze! Then, He wraps me in the biggest hug ever and holds me tightly. I tightly wrap my arms around His neck and the tears begin to flow. As each tear falls to the ground, all the pain, heartbreak and sadness of a lifetime falls away with them. I completely forget about the others in this huge room! Jesus sits on the top step that's before His throne and sits me on His lap and continues to smile. Then He speaks:
"I am so glad that you're here! I want you to know that you are so very loved here and you are accepted just as you are! No longer must you pretend to be someone else or agonize over the right things to say to be accepted! This is all yours; all of this is your inheritance as a son (Jesus sweeps His arm from left to right)! Look around and see all those who have loved you from eternity past! We have all been waiting for you and now you are here!
I am so pleased with you, Milton! I know you have felt far from me but I have always been a blink away from you. I was with you developed in the womb, My eyes were the first to lay eyes upon you. I was there every second of every minute of your life! I have always been there and I will always be there. Always!
Go forth with the boldness that comes from knowing that you are accepted; you are one of Mine and I am with you always! I love you dearly Milton. Never let any person or any situation tell you differently! You are hearing the truth right from the Source! Now go!
P.S. Heather Clark has a song called "I Know I'm Loved" that has really blessed me and really speaks to being loved and accepted by God. You can listen to the song and even download it for free (legally of course) here
The Setting: The Throne Room of God (many of my visions occur in the Throne Room!). The entire multitude of redeemed souls, saints and angels is amassed in a huge group that is separated by a wide aisle (as in a giant theater). I hear my name called and I am to approach the Throne. I am 8 years old (thanks for the tip Mark). At first, I feel a littl nervous as I look at all the faces of all the souls and angels there. There's so much love and warmth in all the faces that the nervousnes goes away. I feel as though I am with close family. Two huge angels approach to escort me down the aidle and extend their hands to me. I take each hand in mine and we begin to slowly walk down the aisle toward Jesus. All the angels and saints are standing; so, being 8 years old, the view of Jesus is blocked at this point. With each step, I feel more confident and more at ease. So confident, in fact, that before I am halfway down the aisle, I am swinging back and forth between the angels and I'm having a ball.
Then, as if someone called my name to snap me out of my reverie, I look up and catch my first glimpse of Jesus seated on the throne. He has a TREMENDOUS smile on His face. Such love is emanating from Him. At that point, I let the angels hands go and begin to jog toward the Throne. I run faster and faster. The angels are all praising Jesus! Jesus stands and extends His arms out to me! I am running as fast as my little legs can carry me! Then, I hear "ACCEPTED!"
I jump into Jesus' arms! He holds me at arms length above His head and slowly spins around as a father would his beloved son. I look down and we gaze into each other's eyes. Such warmth and love in His gaze! Then, He wraps me in the biggest hug ever and holds me tightly. I tightly wrap my arms around His neck and the tears begin to flow. As each tear falls to the ground, all the pain, heartbreak and sadness of a lifetime falls away with them. I completely forget about the others in this huge room! Jesus sits on the top step that's before His throne and sits me on His lap and continues to smile. Then He speaks:
"I am so glad that you're here! I want you to know that you are so very loved here and you are accepted just as you are! No longer must you pretend to be someone else or agonize over the right things to say to be accepted! This is all yours; all of this is your inheritance as a son (Jesus sweeps His arm from left to right)! Look around and see all those who have loved you from eternity past! We have all been waiting for you and now you are here!
I am so pleased with you, Milton! I know you have felt far from me but I have always been a blink away from you. I was with you developed in the womb, My eyes were the first to lay eyes upon you. I was there every second of every minute of your life! I have always been there and I will always be there. Always!
Go forth with the boldness that comes from knowing that you are accepted; you are one of Mine and I am with you always! I love you dearly Milton. Never let any person or any situation tell you differently! You are hearing the truth right from the Source! Now go!
P.S. Heather Clark has a song called "I Know I'm Loved" that has really blessed me and really speaks to being loved and accepted by God. You can listen to the song and even download it for free (legally of course) here
Tags: Love, acceptance, sonship
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Permalink Reply by Mary Ann E on -
wow....rhanks for that one way am great ful buut on the other I get envious( I know REAL bad ) because I know what is available to me ( such as meeting with the God personally) but by inability ( or rather disobedience to believe) to rest in His grace by faith is unbelievably sad and to miss out....I should be free now..but unbelief, double-mindedness,,,pride... I need to give up to Jesus....thanks again for posting that...
please pray for me...
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Permalink Reply by Milton Delaney on -
Hi Mary Ann and thanks for your comment. I am sorry for the late response. I haven't been to this site in a while. As I read your comment, a few scriptures come to mind:
Romans 8:1 There is therefore now NO CONDEMNATION for those who are in Christ Jesus. Jesus doesn't condemn you; so, don't condemn yourself.
Mark 9:24: I do believe; help me overcome my unbelief!
2 Corinthinans 10:5: Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ
Phil 4:13: I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.
If there are things that you may be doing or may be in your life that you know hinder your spiritual growth and intimacy with God, confess them to God, REPENT and don't return to them. How can you "not return to them"? You must rely on the strength of Holy Spirit in you to empower you. Ask Him to help you. One of my favorite scriptures is Ezekiel 11:19-20 where the Lord says He will remove our heart of stone and replace it with a heart of flesh; He will cause His Spirit to dwell within us and cause us to walk according to His statutes. Holy Spirit does all the work!
Get to the point where you say "I'm just going to believe". When the doubtful thoughts come, take them captive! The thoughts will come but you don't have to allow them to stay in your mind and grow into sin. I started saying outloud to the enemy, "I've given that matter to the Lord and I refuse to let that thought into my head! Get away from me satan in Jesus name!" This works because you have that authority! Not that I have achieved anything, but the Lord has caused me to grow in this area.
Set aside some time and take all your concerns to Jesus. Forget all the flowery language; just tell Him your concerns. Mark Virkler shared with me (and I reference this in my original post), to form an image in my mind of me as an 8 year old child (we must come to Jesus as a child) talking with Jesus. That image grew into me sitting with Jesus on a hill under a shady tree that overlooks a small village. We sit, talk and enjoy the fellowship. Then tell Him all the things that are troubling you. Confess what needs to be confessed. Express your desire to Him and EXPECT HIM TO MOVE! Then, thank Him for what he has already done in the spirit. It will take some work at first, but you WILL OVERCOME THIS IN THE NAME OF JESUS!
One last thing; one thing that helped me was listening to soaking music. www.soakingwithapurpose.com has a lot of music that you can listen to for free and even download and listen to it to quiet your spirit and enter into worship.
Be encouraged! May the love of God and the peace of God rest upon you always!
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Permalink Reply by Wendy Hall on -
After reading this vision today I got an email with these pictures of Jesus. I just wanted to share them.
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Permalink Reply by Milton Delaney on
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Wendy, thanks so much for posting these! Picture # 2 (first picture at the top of the right column with the little boy gigling in Jesus' lap while the other boy peeks over His shoulder) is the picture of what I saw in the vision! The Exaulted King of everything stepping down from His throne to play with and love on a little boy! That's it! Amen!
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Permalink Reply by oksana rusakov on -
Wow. Wendy, these pictures are so great! About three months ago I lost my baby boy Isaac on the fifth months of pregnancy. The pictures of an infant in Jesus' arms brought so much healing to my heart. This is how i want to remember Isaac...for i know that he is with Jesus forever.
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Permalink Reply by Dawn Pulleyn on -
Dear Milton
thanks so much for sharing this, my heart was so touched. I felt like I was right there with you and Jesus. How wonderful. This is from the heart of God, I don't believe you or anyone could have made this up. It just emanates agape and only Jesus can do that. Be encouraged and continue journalling, the Father loves you so and wants to communicate with you and encourage you. Head up you are loved, accepted and as He said go forth with boldness, child of the most High.
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Permalink Reply by Milton Delaney on
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Dawn, thanks so much for your encouraging words! The enemy tries to make me doubt that these visions are of God. "You just made that up," he says; but the devil is a liar and we serve the Living Truth! Amen!
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Permalink Reply by Dawn Pulleyn on
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amen and amen
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Permalink Reply by Eli Costea on -
Milton,
After reading what you wrote, it just gave me such a peaceful feeling inside! I even found the link to the soaking music you posted and started to listen and do my bible study and it's amazing what you can get out of all of it! I'm doing a study on "Faithful, Abundant, True Three Lives Going Deeper Still" by Kay Arthur, Priscilla Shirer and Beth Moore. It's an amazing workbook/video study! Anyway, in my workbook, I went over a section that says " You have had to deal with doubts. Among other things, Satan is a tempter and a liar. He not only tempts and lies to you, he also tempted Jesus. If we can see how Jesus handled the Devil, we can do the same." It's amazing because I had ur story opened on the screen while I was doing this devotion study and I've been going through the same thing with having some visions that later I started to doubt, but I got confirmation on them and I know they're real and not just in my mind. Yours is real as well, don't let the enemy tell you otherwise with doubts. This kind of stuff just doesn't happen for no reason, it is from our Lord, he is in direct communication with us! We are living the last days and the scriptures say that we will be having visions and dreams (read Revelations) it is not just a thing of the old! God is of the past, present and future! Be blessed!
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Permalink Reply by Desiree Dunleavey on -
I've seen this pictures before but it's been a while. What a blessing they are! The artist really had true vision of Christ, amen? Milton, awesome entry. What an encouraging word for me to read this morning! The Lord is soooo good!
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